{"id":303923,"date":"2026-07-23T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303923\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:35:24","slug":"kbi-priest-who-served-in-manhattan-accused-of-child-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303923\/","title":{"rendered":"KBI: Priest who served in Manhattan accused of child sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-1\/2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784766062882.png\" alt=\"McCandless photo Sedgwick County Jail\"\/>McCandless photo Sedgwick County Jail<\/p>\n<p>SEDGWICK COUNTY \u2013\u00a0The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) arrested a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Salina for child sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, July 22, at approximately 5:05 p.m., KBI agents arrested Father Ryan A. McCandless, 44, of Wichita, on an arrest warrant for three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to a media release from the\u00a0 KBI.<\/p>\n<p> The arrest occurred at a residence in the 2100 block of S. Erie St. in Wichita. The Sedgwick County Fugitive Warrant Unit assisted with the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic County Sheriff\u2019s Office requested KBI assistance on Sept. 15, 2025. The charges allege that between July and September 2025, McCandless sexually abused a 6-year-old child in Belleville, Kansas. The Diocese of Salina suspended McCandless from ministry when they were made aware of the reported incidents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following his arrest, McCandless was booked into the Sedgwick County Detention Facility. He is expected to be transferred to the Republic County Jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCandless had most recently been the pastor of three parishes in Republic County, Kansas: St. Edward Parish in Belleville, St. George Parish in Munden, and St. Isidore Parish in Cuba, Kansas. Additionally, he previously served parishes in Hays, Manhattan, Mankato, Concordia and Esbon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to this investigation is asked to call the KBI at 1-800-KS-CRIME. Anonymous tips can also be submitted online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbi.ks.gov\/sar?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.kbi.ks.gov\/sar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCandless photo Sedgwick County Jail SEDGWICK COUNTY \u2013\u00a0The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) arrested a priest of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-303923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}